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London federation learns from Middlesbrough ‘failure’

Three London colleges have announced plans to form a federation in a bid to combat budget cuts. Newham College, Tower Hamlets and Redbridge College have formed the Federation of East London Colleges, due to have its first working group meeting this month. College leaders said they hoped the move would allow them to share resources […]

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Workplace complexity requires careers guidance and skills provision overview

Anthony Mann looks at the issue of careers advice with the demands of employers for workers with certain skills becoming ever-more complex. Two elements of education and skills policy have, of late, attracted particularly intense controversy. Both are Cinderellas of their sectors and the two are related: careers education and adult skills provision. What connects […]

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SFA relaxes traineeship subcontractor rules while DWP ‘increases access’ for young JSA claimants

The Skills Funding Agency has relaxed its rules on new traineeship subcontracting to allow all grade three-rated and non-inspected providers to work with a grade one or two lead to deliver the programme. Thanks to the changes, brought in this month, grade three-rated (‘requires improvement’) providers and those not inspected by Ofsted can draw up traineeship agreements […]

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Ex-A4e workers jailed over £300k taxpayer fraud

Five former A4e workers have been jailed for their parts in a back-to-work scheme fraud that cost the taxpayer nearly £300,000. A further five former employees were handed suspended sentences at Reading Crown Court  for a plot that involved creating faked records of welfare-to-work learners. Between 2008 and 2011, the defendants submitted fraudulent paperwork for learners on […]

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Election questions from across the FE and skills sector

The election period officially begins today — and last week saw the leaders of the two largest parties being put on the spot by Jeremy Paxman and a studio audience on Channel 4’s Battle for Number 10. Opinion was divided over who came out on top — but whoever it was, there were plenty of questions […]

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Government cuts could ‘decimate’ adult education by 2020, AoC warns

Continued cuts to the adult skills budget risk wiping out adult education and training in England within five years, the Association of Colleges (AoC) has warned after research showed 190,000 course places could be lost in 2015/16 alone. The AoC has published research based on data from its 336 member colleges which points to a […]

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Inadequate-rated college follows through on FE Commissioner’s merger advice — leaving nearly 100 jobs in the balance

Norton Radstock College’s proposed merger with City of Bath College will be made official next month in a move that could mean nearly 100 job losses. They will become Bath College on April 6 following the advice of FE Commissioner Dr David Collins, who visited Norton Radstock College last summer after Ofsted gave it a grade four […]

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College opens doors for its own ‘Skills Show’ event

[slideshow_deploy id=’33906′]   From manicuring to forensic science and robotics to bricklaying, London learners got a taste of the Skills Show with a host of their very own have-a-go activities at college. The College of North West London (CNWL) threw open its doors on Wednesday (March 18) to more than 1,200 schoolchildren, local residents and […]

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Labour’s apprenticeship policy fails to win support

Labour’s pledge to axe apprenticeships at level two  came under attack once again when Shadow Junior Education Minister Yvonne Fovargue spoke at NCFE’s policy conference in Central London. Ms Fovargue told delegates at the Delivering on learner outcomes: spotlight on youth employment conference that level two was still “valued” but needed to be “rebranded” to […]

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